Rickenbacker Air National Guard Base

I read the report.

On the same day, about two hours later, a sky phenomenon was observed by several watchers over Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio.

It was described as round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than five hundred miles per hour.

The object was followed from the Lockbourne observation tower for more than twenty minutes.

And all balloons and instruments released at that time were fully accounted for.

Even if it had been a balloon, it would not explain the later January seventh reports, the simultaneous sightings mentioned by Professor Heineck in the Project Saucer report.

This includes the thing seen at Lockbourne Air Force Base two hours after Mantell's death.

Obviously, the saucer seen flying at five hundred miles per hour over Lockbourne Field could not have been a balloon.

I read the report.

"On the same day, about two hours later, a sky phenomenon was observed by several watchers over Lockbourne Air Force Base, Columbus, Ohio.

It was described as round or oval, larger than a C-47, and traveling in level flight faster than five hundred miles per hour.

The object was followed from the Lockbourne observation tower for more than twenty minutes.

And all balloons and instruments released at that time were fully accounted for.

Even if it had been a balloon, it would not explain the later January 7th reports, the simultaneous sightings mentioned by Professor Hynek in the Project Sossa report.

This includes the thing seen at Lockbourne Air Force Base two hours after Mantell's death.

Obviously, the saucer seen flying at five hundred miles per hour over Lockbourne Field could not have been a balloon.

But at the end of the day, um, here's a guy, served in the Air Force between 1949 and '52.

He was stationed at Lockbourne Air Force Base during June of 1951 when a large oval-shaped craft flew over the base.

It was five buses in length.

It had a dull metallic exterior appearance.